by SMThornton | Aug 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
Farmers leave some of their fields fallow every year to avoid depleting all the nutrients from the soil. Or they rotate what they’re growing. (Says the girl from Alaska who plants most of her veggies in buckets and dumps the dirt every fall.) I realized after I...
by SMThornton | Aug 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
I went to Disneyland for the first time when I was nine. Splash Mountain had just opened and all my little friends were jealous that I was going to go on the coolest ride ever. The first day in the park we had breakfast with the characters and hung out in Tomorrow...
by SMThornton | Aug 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
I haven’t done a blogfest in a while, but I couldn’t resist D.L. Hammon’s High Drama Blogfest. Next week I’ll announce on a new sort of blogfest- one with haikus! Yes, you heard me right- HAIKUS! Here’s my High Drama...
by SMThornton | Aug 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
I just finished reading Stephen Markley’s Publish This Book. Let’s just say it’s like Jon Stewart and the creators of South Park got together to write a book on publishing a book. And did drugs while they were at it. Here’s an excerpt (the...
by SMThornton | Jul 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
We writers are a versatile bunch when it comes to writing POV’s from both genders. I struggled to write a male POV, but my readers tell me I’m pretty good at it. The writing is more succinct. Why? In my experience, men tend not to overanalyze. They...
